Otaru Takano Liquor Store (小樽酒商たかの )

Otaru is famous for its sushi restaurants. After sushi dinner, we passed by a sake liquor store. Otaru town was quiet in Sep, so we decided to buy same sakes back to our room to drink. The store sold locals as well as premium sakes.

The prices for Tatenokawa 光明 and 十八 differed by a zero!

As we were making payment, we heard noises coming from above. Then we realised there was a 'hidden' drinking place above...

According to their website, there was about 100 kinds of alcohol available.

The master was very friendly and tried to share his sake knowledge with us. However we could only understand part of it.

二世古 sake is from Niseko! A hokkaido sake.
死神 sake is from Shimane.

Here is a night photo of the Otaru Canal

Website: http://www.otaru-takano.co.jp/
Tabelog: https://tabelog.com/hokkaido/A0106/A010601/1030476/